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I am Microsoftie 4 ever (19+ years) working in Windows Services and Content team in the UK, my blog is mainly focused on the Windows family of products and trying to provide help pointers and resources for customers on our products.

November, 2010

Microsoftie 4 ever (19+ years) working in Windows Web Services and Content team in the UK. The blog is mainly focused on the Windows family of products and trying to provide help pointers and resources for customers on our products.

OK so I have had my HTC Mozart WP7 for a few days now and am really enjoying finding out and using the new OS, and this article from Pocket Lint is a great place to start for tricks and tips for Windows Phone 7.

10. What are the dots? - Whenever you see three dots at the bottom of the screen, that's a menu for more options. In photo playback for example, it will give you the options to delete the image or perform a quick upload.

32. Auto save your images to SkyDrive It's always a good to keep a backup of your pictures, and Windows Phone 7 comes with SkyDrive which lets you do just that. In steps the auto upload to SkyDrive option. If you got confused the first time it asked you when you went into the pictures area, don't panic, you can re-enable it via the Applications page hidden within Settings. Go to Settings, swipe to the left and then scroll down to Pictures & Camera. In there you'll find the option to set the Auto Upload feature on.

48. Finding more symbols on the keyboard. The keyboard is fairly comprehensive and simple to use, but it can't display all the symbols you might want at the same time. If that's the case press the "more" arrow to the left of the screen to reveal more keyboard options. Incredibly useful if you email address uses _ (took me ages to find this)

One thing you will notice using Internet Explorer 9 Beta is that there is no extra search box and you can search direct from the address bar which is great and helps declutter the design IMO. However this can cause a problem if you enter in an intranet address, as it will not find it and take you to a search results for that term:

If you are lucky the intranet name might be recognised and you will get the new Notification Barpop up asking you if you want to go to the intranet site:

However you can get IE9 to go straight to your intranet site by simply adding a / onto the end of your address

IE9 then adds the additional http:// and you are sent direct to your intranet page.

You can of course add your sites as well to the Intranet Zone within the settings.

OK so this can be an annoying problem where Internet Explorer opens Office documents such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc. in the browser itself rather than the appropriate program after clicking a hyperlink..